A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.